Improved device for attaching sails to mast-hoops



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

DAVID MOUAT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED DEVICE FO-Pt ATTACHING SAILS TO MAST-HOOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,783, dated Muy 17, 1864.

To all ywhom t may concern Be it known that I, DAVID MOUAT, of the eastern district of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attaching Sails to Mast-Hoops, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Ifigure l is a top view ot a portion of a mast'hoop and a horizontal section of a portion of a sail, illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the mast-hoop and a side view of a portion ot the sail.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both ligures.

rIhe object of this invention is to provide for the attachment ot' the sail to the masthoops in amore durable as well as in a more expeditious manner thun has been heretofore known; and to this end it consists in the employment for such attachment of bow-shaped metal straps passing through eyes in the sail and around the leech thereof, and attached to the hoop by means of bands or otherwise, dispensing entirely with the use of seizings, which take a much longer time to apply and are vsubject to chang, by which they are soon worn out.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and a-pply my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A is the hoop, and B the sail. The hoop may be made in the usual Way and the edge of the sail has a leech, a, applied and secured to it in the usual manner. At such intervals as it is intended to attach the sail to the Loops there are provided in it, close to the leech, eyes b, for the reception of the metal strap C, which constitute the principal feature of my invention. One ot' these straps is applied to each hoop, and I prefer to apply it to the middle of the splice cof the hoop. The

strap is made of brass, iron, or other metal, with a bow, j', of sufficient size to receive within it the leech, and With two taper projecting ends, d df, ot'a form to tit closely against the exterior periphery' ot' the hoop, and is secured to the hoop by two metal bands, e c', fitted to the hoop over the said ends d d and close up to the bow. One ot' the said bands e never requires to be removed and is therefore riveted through the hoop by a rivet, h, and the other, c', requiring to be movable, is kept to its place close against the bow f by a split elastic pin, g, inserted through a hole in the hoop outside the said band e. The bands ce are placed on the hoop before the splice is made. The interior ot' the bow fis roundel, as shown in Fig. 2, in its transverse section to prevent its chaiing the interior of the eye b ofthe sa-il.

To attach thehoop to the sail, the end d and bowf of the strap are passed through the eye ofthe sail and the end d passed into the fixed band e. The band e is then slipped over the end d ofthe band and the pin g inserted through the hoop to secure itin place. This is done in a fraction of the time required to apply aseizing, and When done makesa much more durable attachment of the hoop to the sail. To detach the hoop from the sail the pin gis withdrawn, the band e slipped ott' the end d of the strap C, and the said strap rst drawn out of the strap e and afterward out of the eye ofthe sail.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination ot' the bow-shaped strap C, (passing through the eye b, around the leech ct,) the hoop A, and the bands e e', all constructed and connected in the manner and for the purposes herein specified.

DAVID MOUAT.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. REED, M. M. LlvINes'roN. 

